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List:       festival-talk
Subject:    FT: From the command line
From:       Alan W Black <awb () cs ! cmu ! edu>
Date:       2000-12-05 23:42:27
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 Stuart Grimshaw writes on 5 December 2000:
 > message from Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@smgsystems.co.uk> to festival-talk
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 > A colleague of mine has installed Festival on his Debian Linux system.
 > 
 > What he would like is a 1-liner to have festival speak from a script.
 > Ideally he wants something like this
 > 
 > #	festival --??? "Your text here"
 > 
 > The nearest I could get for him was
 > 
 > #	echo "Your text here" >ftext.txt
 > #	festival --tts ftext.txt
 > #	rm ftext.txt
 > 
 > Anyone got anything better?
 > 

A challenge, hmm you can't pass it on the command line as --tts
needs a file name but you can do

   echo "your text here" | festival --tts 

But you can pass lisp expressions on the command line thus

   festival -b '(SayText "Your text here")'

Alan


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